A Viral Tweet Set Off a Discourse on $20 Burritos. Here's the Truth About Inflation. Americans are angry because everyday goods are much more expensive, and politicians think they should “stop whining.” Reason · Aug 6
FCC Rule Change Would Allow More Broadcast Mergers, but It's Not Clear the FCC Has That Power. It's not clear if the agency even has the legal authority to make the change. But if it goes through, there's little to worry about. Reason · Aug 6
Scott Galloway's Bad Idea To Make Young Men Happier Hint: It's mandatory national service. Reason · Aug 6
DOGE Claimed $110 Billion in Spending Cuts That Couldn't Be Verified, Audit Finds The DOGE project was the second Trump administration's best idea. Unfortunately, it was terribly executed. Reason · Aug 6
Courts Say the Justice Department Is Shredding the 'Presumption of Regularity.' It Never Deserved Extra Trust. Misconduct and misrepresentations by Justice Department lawyers have led some federal judges to question the traditional benefit of the doubt they give to the government. Reason · Aug 6
A Major 'Online Safety' Bill Cleared a Senate Committee. More Crackdowns on Internet Freedom Could Be Coming. The Senate Commerce committee advanced four bills related to online and AI safety in the name of protecting children. Reason · Aug 6
A Federal Judge Rejects National Firearms Act Regulations, Saying Their Tax Rationale No Longer Applies When Congress eliminated taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, it also eliminated the constitutional justification for regulating them. Reason · Aug 6
Hawaii's End Run Around Citizens United Faces a First Amendment Roadblock A new Hawaii law reclassifies corporate political speech as a "power" the state can revoke at will. Reason · Aug 6
Reality Show Participant's #Scandoval Sex Videos Aren't of "Public Interest" for California Anti-SLAPP Law Purposes Dissent: "We judges can write all we want, but this public voted with its eyeballs." Reason · Aug 6
"What the 2025-2026 Supreme Court Term Revealed About the Roberts Court" A new podcast from the National Constitution Center Reason · Aug 6
Socialist Moment Plus: right-wing burrito wars, a star scholar resigns, Fauci's pandemic phone, and more... Reason · Aug 6
#TheyLied Defamation Suit Over Sexual Assault Claims Involving High School Special Ed Students Can Proceed From O.A. v. Devita, decided June 25 by L.A. Superior Court Judge Dean Kitchens, but just recently posted to Westlaw:… The post #TheyLied Defamation Suit Over Sexual Assault Claims Involving High School Special Ed Students Can Proceed appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 6
No Religious Exemption from Forum Selection Clause in Employment Agreement "Plaintiff should be treated like any other employee in his position, not that he should be favored based on his identity." Reason · Aug 6
Reason · Aug 6 Is Environmental Science Less Objective? An analysis of the use of subjective language in scientific papers.
Reason · Aug 6 First Circuit Strikes Down Puerto Rico Ban on Certain Knowingly False Statements During Declared Emergencies Rodríguez-Cotto v. González-Colón, decided Tuesday by First Circuit Judges Gustavo Gelpí and Seth Aframe and Seventh Circuit Judge David Hamilton,… The post First Circuit Strikes Down Puerto Rico Ban on Certain Knowingly False Statements During Declared Emergencies appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 6 Why James Madison Wanted Greater Limits on States' Rights The “father of the Constitution” worried about federal and state overreach.
Reason · Aug 6 Brickbat: Cash Back New York Assemblywoman Nikki Lucas (D–Brooklyn) has proposed a bill that would require supermarkets and other retailers to give customers who… The post Brickbat: Cash Back appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 5 The Trump Administration Promises the 'Largest Denaturalization Effort Ever' Denaturalization isn't new, but it has been used sparingly in modern history, in part because it is extremely costly and time-consuming.
Reason · Aug 5 Court Upholds African People's Socialist Party Convictions for Being Unregistered Russian Foreign Agents From today's decision in U.S. v. Romain by Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and Andrew… The post Court Upholds African People's Socialist Party Convictions for Being Unregistered Russian Foreign Agents appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 5 The American Fingerprints on the Genocide in Sudan Reuters and the U.N. accuse an operator with extensive U.S. government links of helping a Sudanese rebel group.
Reason · Aug 5 Trump's Newest Tariffs Could Protect America From the National Security Risk of Brass Instruments An idea that's wildly out of tune at a time when Americans are trumpeting their worries about affordability.
Reason · Aug 5 Abdul El-Sayed Says He's Not a Socialist. His Policy Agenda Says Otherwise. El-Sayed is pushing a mendacious claim: that people would be wealthier if they endured yet another massive transfer of money and power to a vast federal health bureaucracy.
Reason · Aug 5 "Did Fauci Properly Take the Fifth?" An excerpt from a detailed analysis at FoxNews.com from John Malcolm, a former federal prosecutor and current VP of the… The post "Did Fauci Properly Take the Fifth?" appeared first on Reason.com.